Fordham Conversations

Fordham Conversations

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Fordham Conversations episodes

  • Using the law to treat AIDS in South Africa
    President Bush announced this week that he's seeking to double spending
    on AIDS prevention...but what does fighting HIV/AIDS look like on the
    ground? We talk to recent Fordham Law grad Brian Honermann about his
    work fighting for people with AIDS in South Africa, and we'll hear
    voices from around the world of people whose lives have been affected by
    AIDS.
    30 min
  • West Indian Bronx
    Queens often gets all the credit for being the most diverse borough,
    but almost as diverse is WFUV's home borough of the Bronx. We talk to
    the Bronx African American History Project's Natasha Lightfoot about
    one community in the borough--West Indians.
    30 min
  • Can you afford the Bronx?
    In the first of two shows about life in the Bronx...with housing prices on a continual upward crawl in New York, we look at
    efforts to keep housing in one area of the city--the North West
    Bronx--decent, and affordable, for New Yorkers. My guest is
    Gregory Lobo Jost, of the University Neighborhood Housing Program.
    30 min
  • Mommies at War
    On this mother's day Fordham Conversations, we look at the "mommy wars",
    and how--and why--we look at working mothers the way we do today.
    30 min
  • Watching with The Simpsons
    Sure, their show’s been running longer than any TV
    sitcom
    ever has…but that’s not the only reason the Simpsons might be the most
    successful family ever to wrap things up in 23 minutes or less. We talk
    to
    Fordham communication and media studies professor Jonathan Gray about
    the
    Simpsons and how they’ve managed to change the way that people all over
    the
    world look at TV, and America.
    30 min
  • Roots of Soviet Space Flight

    On October 4, 1947, "Leave it to Beaver" premiered on US

    television, and space travel premiered in the USSR
    as the Soviets launched the first Sputnik. We take a look at the roots of
    Soviet space travel, and America's
    response to it, with Fordham History professor Asif Siddiqi.

    30 min
  • Education and the Romani
    We tend to think of romani--"gypsies"--as romantic
    and mysterious; but in Romania,
    and throughout Europe, they're an ethnic
    minority that
    faces widespread discrimination. We talk to Tracy Higgins from Fordham
    Law School's
    Joseph R. Crowley Program in International Human Rights, about the
    problems
    Romani children face as they try to go to school. 
    30 min
  • For Holocaust Remembrance Day
    One day before Holocaust remembrance day, we look at one
    family--Holocaust survivor Roma Ben-Atar and her son, Fordham History
    professor Doron Ben-Atar. Together they wrote a book about Roma's
    experience in the war...and now Doron's written a play inspired by it.
    30 min
  • Fighting for Air
    We talk to author
    Eric
    Klinenberg about his surprisingly optimistic take on media
    consolidation in America. He's the author of the new book, "Fighting
    for Air:
    The Battle to Control America's Media."
    30 min
  • Guantanamo 101
    In the
    wake of the first conviction this week of
    a Guantanamo detainee
    before a military commission, we talk to
    Fordham law professor Martha Rayner about the basics of the camp, how
    the US has come to be in the position we're in, and her work representing detainees.
    30 min

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An exploration of the worlds of literature, science, politics, and the arts with faculty, visiting scholars and outside guests